Maddow on the GOP’s Crazy Caucus

Rachel Maddow had an excellent segment on Thursday about some of the latest stories that show just how thoroughly the GOP has mainstreamed the crazy. This is especially true in Virginia at the moment, where they keep putting the looniest imaginable people in positions of authority. Seriously, they have a candidate who thinks yoga leads to Satanic possession and they just hired a guy who thinks voodoo causes earthquakes.

There was a time when I partially enjoyed seeing Republicans spouting truly absurd nonsense. I had been hoping it would lead to a mass exodus from the party or a schism, triggering their fall from power and replacement with a saner party. Now I’m worried it won’t.

For years now, the crazy caucus has been chomping at the bit for new civil war. I used to think it was a joke. Now I worry that they won’t be satisfied until there is one.

Joey Maloney

It’s actually a giant straitjacket, we just tell them it’s a tent.

Michael Heath

The crazy caucus wing of the GOP appears to equal the number of Republicans. What’s nuttier than denying a grave threat to humanity, like AGW?

Synfandel

What’s nuttier than denying a grave threat to humanity, like AGW?

Knowingly encouraging a grave threat to humanity, as do the ‘bring on the Apocalypse’ fundies. That’s some serious toys-in-the-attic crazy.

slc1

Don’t bet against these assholes taking over the Senate in 2014 and the presidency in 2016. Think it can’t happen here. A lot of Germans didn’t think it could happen there in 1932. How did that work out? I have to reluctantly agree with a comment by Don Williams yesterday, that basically the intelligence level of the American populace ain’t too good and it seems to be getting worse.

slc1“Don’t bet against these assholes taking over the Senate in 2014 and the presidency in 2016. Think it can’t happen here. A lot of Germans didn’t think it could happen there in 1932. How did that work out?”

Now you’re just being ridiculous. When did the GOP even run in Germany?

raven

Don’t bet against these assholes taking over the Senate in 2014 and the presidency in 2016.

Romney a nonxian Reptilian, with all the warmth and appeal of a lizard got 47% of the vote. Obama won by 5 million votes, less than the 9 million he got the first time.

It’s certainly not impossible.

As much as we laugh at the clowns, they already had a clown president in Bush and it was a Catastrophe. The body count was huge, Two of my friends dead in Iraq, a dead economy, tens of millions of dead 401(k) plans, the dead from two wars, soaring deficits, and so on.

Obama with some success has spent his entire terms fixing what the GOP broke.

baal

Even with all the deep pockets on the right, I keep wondering if it’s in fact all that hard to run against crazy or if the (D) don’t try.

Don’t bet against these assholes taking over the Senate in 2014 and the presidency in 2016. Think it can’t happen here. A lot of Germans didn’t think it could happen there in 1932.

In 1932 Germans were predominately in favor of the Nazis. One of the most effective ‘no true Scotsmen’ fallacious arguments ever is Germans successfully disassociating themselves from Naziism. The facts argue otherwise, like 96.5% turnout that same year where 95% voted in favor of the Nazis. (Pg. 177 of Erik Larson’s, “In the Garden of the Beasts”, First Paperback Edition).

Yes there were no other candidates allowed to run and pressure to vote, “or else”. But, “or else” wasn’t nearly as threatening in 1932 as it came to be soon after. The Nazis, and these conservative Christians, are acting out for all the same authoritarian submissive and loving reasons. Future generations of their ilk will also disassociate themselves from the forebears of their way of thinking, just like Glenn Beck falsely claims to be the true ideological descendant of the civil rights pioneers.

dingojack

SLC – who is gonna play Hindenburg in your little scenario?*

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Dingo

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* Nazi Tourette’s strikes again!

slc1

Re Michael Heath

I believe that ole Heath is referring to an election that took place late in 1932. It is my information that, in a previous election, the Nazi party gained considerably less then 50% of the seats in the Reichstag, although they were the largest party. After Hindenburg appointed Frankenberger chancellor, German democracy, such as it was, was extinguished. The election in 1932 that ole Heath refers to was about as democratic as elections in the former Soviet Union.

Paul Neubauer

Ouch, Dingo. I have visions of Rush Limbaugh in Lakehurst, NJ. (Yes, I know, not that Hindenburg, but I can’t help myself.)